Any honest conversation about engaging young people must address discrimination against young people.

Young people often serve as scapegoats for the challenges communities face. At the same time, they are routinely pushed away from connecting to their communities as serious problem-solvers capable of changing the world.

The outcome of this culture of discrimination is that young people are routinely denied the roles in society they can, should, and need to be occupying.

Any honest conversation about engaging young people must address discrimination against young people.

Young people and adults need equitable relationships-they do not need equal ones.

Adultism leads to a phenomenon of little adults, who are young people who are treated as adults-in-the-making. A non-discriminatory perspective would be to treat children and youth as whole and complete people right now.

Most of society's decision making for young people happens without young people, and that could not happen without adultcentrism.